Mansfield Park (2007) (TV)

Director:

Iain B. MacDonald

Writer:

Maggie Wadey (written by)

Release Date:

27 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

At age 10, Fanny Price is sent by her destitute mother to live with her aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram...

Plot Keywords:

Uncle | Clergyman | Aunt | Romantic Rivalry | Navy

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Julia Joyce	...	Young Fanny
Jemma Redgrave	...	Lady Bertram
Douglas Hodge	...	Sir Thomas Bertram
Maggie O'Neill	...	Mrs. Norris
Tara Berwin	...	Young Maria
Lucy Hurst	...	Young Julia
Zachary Elliott-Hatton	...	Young Tom
Greg Sheffield	...	Young Edmund
Billie Piper	...	Fanny Price
Blake Ritson	...	Edmund Bertram
James D'Arcy	...	Tom Bertram
Michelle Ryan	...	Maria Bertram
Rory Kinnear	...	Rushworth
Catherine Steadman	...	Julia Bertram
Hayley Atwell	...	Mary Crawford

Runtime:

120 min (including commercials) | Finland:88 min (excluding commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Finland:K-3

Filming Locations:

Newby Hall, Skelton on Ure, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Company:

Company Pictures

Trivia:

In the play rehearsal scene, James D'Arcy as Tom Bertram wears a brocade suit that was also worn by Corin Redgrave in Persuasion (1995). Redgrave wears the suit during the scene in which Sir Walter Elliot tries to induce Anne to accompany him to Lady Dalrymple's.

Movie Connections:

Version of Mansfield Park (1999)

Soundtrack:

The Navvie on the Line

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Oh dear! The BBC is not about to be knocked off its pedestal for absorbing period dramas by this one. I agree this novel of Jane Austens is the difficult to portray particularly to a modern audience, the heroine is hardly a Elizabeth Bennet, even Edmund is not calculated to cause female hearts to skip a beat. However I must say I was hoping for an improvement on the last and was sadly disappointed. The basic story was preserved, but the dialogue was so altered that all that was Jane Austen's tone, manner, feeling, wit, depth, was diluted if not lost. If some past adaptions may be seen as dated the weakness of this one must be that it is too modern ('his life is one long party'?????) The cast was generally adequate, but I think Billie Piper was the wrong choice, it needed someone more restrained, I gained no impression of hidden depths beneath a submissive exterior, she was more like a frolicking child. I see I must wait for the BBC to weave its magic once again.